Welcome to Poetry Party #79!
I select an image (the photo above is by Christine Valters Paintner) and suggest a theme/title and invite you to respond with your own poem. Scroll down and add it in the comments section below or join our Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks Facebook group and post there.
Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the image and invitation on your blog (if you have one), Facebook, or Twitter, and encourage others to come join the party! (If you repost the photo, please make sure to include the credit link below it and link back to this post inviting others to join us).
We began this month with a Community Lectio Divina practice with a parable from the Gospel of Mark and followed up with our Photo Party on the theme of the “harvesting the inner garden.” (You are most welcome to still participate). We continue this theme in our Poetry Party this month. What are continuing to discover about your own inner harvesting?
You can post your poem either in the comment section below*or you can join our Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks Facebook group (with more than 2200 members!) and post there.
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The Wine of Forgiveness
Slip into your gentle gown of humility
Come to your banquet of life
Come, savor its profusion of dishes
The bitter
The sweet
The complex
The simple
Your place is set with love
Surrounded by soul friends
Lift the blood
Of crushed grapes
To a toast
Then to your lips
Sip the wine of forgiveness
Harvested in your memories
Diversity
Made in the creator’s image
Yet free to be
Uniquely different
Like grapes
On a grapevine.
Clinging to the source
Yet free to be
Moved by our own experiences.
Each nurtured and weathered
By life’s many joys and storms.
When the shades of night descend
I begin a spirit journey
To the New Fire verandah
Where chants of Paschal joy’
Welcome the Morning Star
And a candle is lit that shines in brilliance
Usually I follow it into the chapel
But last night the window became
A luminous portal out over the ocean
It’s shining was so magical
I was absorbed into it
And the melody of God is Love Forever
Written on the adjacent wall
High up hovering and shimmering
The bunch of grapes became
Good Wine overflowing and mystical
Life and healing for the world…
{I don’t know how to download the picture… go to Facebook – Hermitage in Big Sur}
The format (indentations) on the poem did not show up when it posted.